Stephen King Quotes
Invitation to Dance-It’s a Dance. And sometimes they turn the lights off in this ballroom.But we’ll dance anyway, you and I. Even in the Dark. Especially in the Dark.May I have the pleasure?
Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it.
Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up.
Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it's like a law of nature.
No one ever forgets a toy that made him or her supremely happy as a child, even if that toy is replaced by one like it that is much nicer.
A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again.
The world was full of monsters, and they were all allowed to bite the innocent and the unwary
He supposed that even in Hell, people got an occasional sip of water, if only so they could appreciate the full horror of unrequited thirst when it set in again.
...Fritz Leiber, the great fantasist and science fiction writer...called books 'the scholar's mistress'...the one who made no demands and always took him in...
People who leave their drugs in a bathroom the guests use are just asking for trouble.
You're a dangerous fool who should be sent west, " he told the unconscious man. "You have forgotten the face of your father.
I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.
Grief is like a drunken house guest, always coming back for one more goodbye hug.
Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up
If you've ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you'll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be.
For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand.
We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.
What you love, you must love all the harder because someday it will be gone.
There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.
When you write a story you're telling yourself the story. When you rewrite your main job is taking out all the things that are NOT the story.
Sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It’s what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutter ball when you’re bowling with the girls in the league. True sorrow is as rare as true love.
There's an old rule of theater that goes, 'If there's a gun on the mantel in Act I, it must go off in Act III.' The reverse is also true.
I hated high school. I don’t trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there’s something wrong with you.
She couldn't be on his wavelength all the time. That's all. When you could recognize that and deal with it, you were on your way to an adult relationship.
Paths cross all the time in this world of ours, sometimes in the strangest places- Charles Jacobs
I think houses live their own lives along a time-stream that's different from the ones upon which their owners float, one that's slower. In a house, especially an old one, the past is closer.
The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.
..Thirty's the end of being young, forty is where you stop fooling yourself.
When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing-
